The residential schools of medicine
by Elizabeth Payne, The Ottawa Citizen, November 27, 2010.
Evacuating women out of remote communities to give birth is traumatic, harmful to communities and costly. So why is it still happening?
Mary Kumarluk’s children are grown now, but memories of their births are tinged with sadness. “I cried a lot,” she says of the weeks she spent in a hospital ward in Moose Factory, northern Ontario, alone and far from home.